Here’s a technical solution of something I was having trouble with earlier yesterday. I’m posting this online figuring someone else will have a similar problem. Anyway, I was trying to install radrails 1.1.0 on Aptana 1.2.1 on my Ubuntu linux Hardy Heron 8.04. Whenever I tried installing a gem though, the system would hang. I tried to do this through the aptana console and it would appear to freeze. If I pressed the return key, I would get another ruby prompt. Weird. I also tried to install the gem through the rubygems view, and it would say “loading remote gem listing” and then get frozen again. Weird.

I was able to get around this by doing a “gem install mongrel -r” at the ruby console prompt in aptana. Then I did a “gem uninstall mongrel”, then rebooted eclipse . I let the gems reinstall after that. “gem install daemons -r” would also probably work, but I haven’t tried it. It’s looking for the daemons plugin apparently. Anyway, it was able to install all the gems after that.

I tried creating a few sample rails apps and they all worked. Interestingly, when I upgraded to radrails 1.1 after that, the gems installed fine. Strange.

Anyway, I wrote this because I couldn’t find any decent documentation on this problem, even on the aptana and ubuntu forums. If anyone has anything to add, comment on my blog.